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Jim,

Depending on the system you get, you "might" get the OS. It depends a great deal on the system and how it was sold into the used market. The OS however is only the beginning. You won't have any of the licensed software that goes along with IBM i. No compilers (except CL), PDM, etc. The list of what you would get is much shorter than the list of things you will need. Keep that in mind.

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Check out iDevCloud.com <http://www.idevcloud.com>. We will provide you with all the tooling (except RDP which you have to get directly from IBM) and licensed program products to play with. I think we have one full partition available but more room on the shared partition. Priced at just above our cost as a service to the community. Full Zend Server, Full access to ProData's DBU and a couple of other products.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 4/10/2012 8:57 AM, Jim Donoghue wrote:
I'm considering looking for a used system to play around with at home. Does
the OS license stay with the hardware? Is it difficult to obtain media to
reinstall? I've seen these things on ebay all the time but im hesitant to
buy one and wind up with a boat anchor.
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